Hard drive not the cure after all

I had a suspected hard drive failure last week
See: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2338353&tstart=0
New drive in put osx in all seemed cool, I put ilife 09 in all cool, put iwork 09 in had it check permissions and it repaired some. I then whent online to do my new install software updates and now no restart!
It froze in grey screen with the spinner going.I shut it down to do a restart with osx disk in and push down c and it Acts like I lost video card.
I have tone, lights,no codes, no video, doesn't matter how I do the restart no video.
If i push c the disk drive speeds up and if I push opt I dont hear any difference but when I push the power button to shut it down it shuts down immediately not the normal hold down power button for a few seconds.
Now what are the odds I lost a hard drive 1 week and 3 days later lost the video card?
Should I be worried this is something more than the card? oh yes reseated it 3 times , got in there with a flashlight to be sure nothing was bent out of place.
Well what do ya think?
kurt

I tried it and no difference. I got a call in to the guy I bought this used from he seems to be involved in a couple different advertising operations and gets the systems when they upgrade. He's looking to see if he has a g-5 card I can borrow to see if this is my problem.
On the network,I only have the 1 mac and 2 pc's. I have always been able to access either pc with the mac but have never been able to see the mac on "my network" with either pc.
Beginning to wonder if I damaged card when I changed the fan, not sure how and the old card was just noisy not dead.
When I get a card in it I'll post if I'm up and running or if I have to start begging the budget boss lady to budget in a new mac.
kurt

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